Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-23

ment at Point Pleasant March 50, 1863.
On the lelt are the German City Salt
Works, having a capacity of 200 barrels
per day. On the right is the Valley City
School house. u large brick structure ana
the best appointed school building in Ma
son county. On the same side are located
the ''SehOn Mines" OH lands of Hon. A..
l.. SehOn, brother of Columbus Sehon,
United States Marshal of West Va.
A mile more and the neat aud pretty
town of Hartford City is reached. 1t was
founded in 1853, by q. W. MoredocE, W.
A. Healy, Lewis Winkleback and Edward
Hall. The mines were opened the same
wear and the first salt wells were drilled in
1856. The first salt was made the next
year. In 1865, the town was incorporated
and q. w. MOredOck elected first mayor.
The train pulls N from the depot and
rolls slowly through the sliding Hill
Narrows'' so called from the over hanging
precipice and lofty eminenCe on the right,
named from its numerous landslides which
in years gone by have broken loose above
and been precIpitated in the river below.
For an hundred years, tradition has aSsOci-
ated with its rugged sleeps the thrilling
story of bloody murder and of vast treas
ureS hidden away among the iutting lodges.
On its spouting and marshy slopes has
burned into flame the i~gniS-fdtUrS moving
with "A ghOst-like tread beueath the dense
u%nderbruSh, has on many a gloomy night,
gave TO the scene a mysterious and wierd
appearance. The early settlers fancied that
i'm the glare of the wavering light, they he
held spectral figures fitting here and there
supposed TO be spirits of the departed
returned to search for gold OF which they
had been robbed when dwelling on earth.
A mile above, surrounded by lofty hills,
is New Haven. Here is located q large
salt furnace and a rich coal field which Is
being extensively worked. 1t is the home
of DIR. J.. l.. Hcnsley, Appointment member
of the present House OF Delegates.
Onward rolls the train through one OF
the widest bottoms on the Ohio. To the
left, on the bank of the river, stands i
little village and the conductor calls Ora
ham station. IL derives IFS name from
the Rev. William Graham, a Presbyterian
minister and one of the founders Of the
now hallOwcd Washington and Lee Uni
verSity at Lexington, Virginia. The lands
upon which the village stands were patent
cd in 1772 by John Poison, a captain III
WashingtOn's regiment ut B~raddOck's de-
feat when nearly every man OF his COM
pany, fell on that sanguinary field. A few
years after the Revolution he sold these
lands to Mr.. Graham, who having induced
several families to accompany him, set out
i'm the wear 1898 to found . settlement on
these lands. The destination was reached,
a blOckhOuSe erected and several acres
cleared. 1t had been the hope OF MIR. Gra-
ham, TO have organized q church and in
time there would spring up around him Il
community of like faith with himself. But,
alas for human hopes! The next year he
returned to Richmond OH business and
while there, sickened and died of fever. His
colonists when they heard of the death of
their leader-bOth temporal and spiritual
became discouraged, abandoned the set
Element and returned to the East. Thus
failed the efforts of 4 great and good man,
who left nothing behind him on the banks
of the Ohio. save his name which Is COM
memuRlted i'm that of Graham's Station.
rhe town on the opposite side of the
rvcr is Racine, the point ut which the
daring Confederate raider-a detachment
of General jenkins COmmand-rccrOSScd
the Ohio in lS62 after having carried the
first Confederate tiag north of that river.
The next station is Lctart Falls, called
Lc 1ar1c Rapids by the early French
vovagrrs. twas once u lannon's "crOsSing'
for elk and buffalo, on their way north
from the Great Kanawha Valley. Maj.
George Crogan and party, who were here
in June, 1866. say they killed many of
each from their boats without going on
shore. Here are the large mercantile cs-
Establishment of George GiSt and William
K. Hayman, the former a d%cscendcnt of
Christopher GiSt the first surveyor on the
hanks OF the Ohio and who went north Of
that river in 100 rs the agent Of the Ohio
Land Company. \ mile above lctart is
the mouth of TOmlinS0n'S Run, where
tradition says Mike Fink once shot Il tin
cup from Il boys head ut the distance of Il
hundred PAGES. \ few hundred yards
farther on and the Jackson County line Is
passed. Thus far 4 run Ofthirty-live miles
has been made around what is known aS
the ".pumcroy Bend" and though five of
the lnOSJ popNI"HN anu Wealthy "'N'I"t>
of Mason Couaty; they collectively voted
IN Appropriation of ST., 800 to aid in the
construction of the road.
Now We would like to accompany the
traveller OH through to Wheeling and talk
of the interesting localities, vast
and future prospects Of Ohio River Rail
road but We are compelled To stop here
and return to Point Pleasant in time To
make Il few lettings for the u "ck}g Register
of that place, and thus lend a helping hand
while Tippett is ut Charleston looking after
the position of Sargent at Arms of the
House of Delegates.